As new features of the Affordable Care Act continue to roll out, women across the country are set to benefit from increased overall access to health services and equal health care rights. For the first time, many women’s health services that were not previously covered or required co-pays and deductibles will now be widely available. [...]
Ladies, when was the last time you visited a doctor? If you can barely remember, it’s time to schedule your next appointment because National Women’s Checkup Day will be Monday, May 13, 2013. Part of a nationwide effort to promote and encourage women to stay recent on their health care checkups, National Women’s Checkup Day [...]
Would you rather wait six weeks to see your doctor or share a group appointment and get in almost immediately? This is a decision a growing number of consumers are being confronted with today. The group doctor visit trend has slowly gained popularity due to a number of factors, including the growing medical needs of [...]
How do you quantify yourself? This is the key health care question coming out of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival this year. As body-tracking gadgets like the Nike+ Fuelband or the Garmin Forerunner, become more popular the inevitable question arises: How can we use this data and what effect will this data have on [...]
By educating their patients, employers and insurers have made an effort to encourage consumers to take control over their health costs. Whether it’s buying a generic prescription drug over a brand name or forgoing an unnecessary medical test, the idea is that the more involved a consumer is regarding his or her health, the better [...]
In the wake of an economic downturn, it’s always refreshing to learn of new job opportunities being created. As the Baby Boomer generation reaches their sixties and beyond, more promising growth has arisen in the health care industry, at no surprise to economists. In just the first month of the year, the Bureau of Labor [...]
So far this year’s strain of the flu has proven to be an aggressive one, with individuals and medical professionals nationwide doing their best to minimize damages. With flu activity picking up across the country about a month earlier than normal, it seems everyone has their work cut out for them. This flu season is [...]
Many of us are familiar with using popular online coupon sites to score great deals on things like restaurants, gyms and salons; but, how would you feel about purchasing your next medical procedure on Groupon? Perhaps you’ve noticed that an increasing number of doctors, dentists and other medical professionals are utilizing popular online coupon sites [...]
Despite a slowly recovering economy, national health expenditures remained surprisingly steady throughout 2011 at a 3.9 percent growth rate. The total health care tab accounts to $2.7 trillion, and while that may not seem like a small chunk of change to us, it actually makes for a three year record low since 2009 according to [...]
A new year is almost upon us, but 2013 brings with it the need for employers to prepare for certain changes in the health insurance plans they offer employees. The landscape of the health care industry is changing – due in large part to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but private health insurance exchanges and [...]
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